Personal Safety; Before Self-defense

The kenpo gokui alludes to the I Ching which in turns tells us that correctness is a hallmark of a good person. In that light I wanted to use this to lead into the fact that for me I must tell you that although Isshinryu has many values for both the fighting arts and life that it also tells us through the gokui that correctness and accuracy are important.

In that light I am telling you that Isshinryu and Karate are not meant as a modern day self-defense method, it is a fighting method. If we are to include teaching of self-defense then we have to do it correctly. This means differentiation in Isshinryu is karate and self-defense is something totally different.

Lets look at self-defense as "personal safety" and ... [Note: the link below has many other postings on this topic and you MUST read it all if you wish to be accurate and truthful when you say your Isshinryu and/or karate training provides self-defense.

If you are serious about learning self-defense then I would put to you that you have a means of doing so with out resorting to any kind of physical action. This blog site I am recommending is providing information in regard to personal safety.

I recommend reading it very much!

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